The syllabus which claims to bring a change in the structure of medical education and health care in the country is likely to do away with the unnecessary aspects of the MBBS course like pharmacy and anatomy.
The course will be focussing on 10 major areas like community medicine, internal medicine, paediatrics, surgery, orthopaedics, obstetrics and gynaecology, ophthalmology, ENT, radio-diagnosis and dentistry, divided into three phases.
In the first phase students will be studying about health problems of the community, basic principles of diagnosis and prevention of common rural aliments such as malaria, anaemia, hookworm, kala-azar, TB and diarrhoea.
In the second phase the focus will be on patient history, basic clinical examination and management of diseases. They will be tied up with national health programmes.
In the third phase the students will undergo a training to prevent basic health problems. Moreover unlike the MBBS doctors who use the prefix ‘Dr’, BRHC doctors will be adding BRHC suffix to their names.
The new category of medical students will be drawn from 10+2 students from rural areas/districts and 25 will be chosen district-wise after an exam. They will be trained at community colleges by practicing or retired doctors from nearby district hospitals. Their practice will be confined to that area and registration will be for one year only.
